Education Quotes

We don't need no education.
We don't need no thought control.
No dark sarcasm in the classroom.
Teacher, leave those kids alone.

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

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Robert Frost

Calamity

Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.

A university education is an admirable thing, of course... so long as you remember that nothing worth knowing can ever be taught.

— Now. Which of you can tell me the difference between an Animagus and a werewolf? No one? How... disappointing.
— Please, sir, an Animagus is a wizard who elects to turn into an animal. A werewolf has no choice in the matter. Furthermore, the werewolf actively hunts humans and responds only to the call of its own kind... That is the second time you have spoken out of turn, Miss Granger. Tell me. Are you incapable of restraining yourself? Or do you take pride in being an insufferable know-it-all?
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— He's got a point, you know.

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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with. A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages, to deserve the word; and besides all this, she must possess a certain something in her air and manner of walking, the tone of her voice, her address and expressions, or the word will be but half-deserved.

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Jane Ostin

Pride & Prejudice

Miss Caroline Bingley

Women

Study

There was nothing more important than knowledge.

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Malala Yousafzai

I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban

Education — that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

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Ambrose Bierce

The Devil's Dictionary

One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.

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Malala Yousafzai

We do not learn for school, but for life.

Non scholæ sed vitæ discimus.

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Latin proverbs and sayings

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Our whole theory of education is based on the absurd notion that we must learn to swim on land before tackling the water. It applies to the pursuit of the arts as well as to the pursuit of knowledge.

— Well, you went to medical school, correct?
— Many, many, many, many years ago.
— Good. So you will be the one brining me back from the dead. Okay, who wants to kill me?

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